A Road out of Naknek Quotes

“I was never a stellar student, but I paid attention to the interesting parts — and as I understand it, gravity between the sun, our planet, and the moon pulls the ocean in a
rhythm as reliable as night and day, summer and winter, or spring and fall. It creates ebbs and floods in a pattern that the rotation of
a clock, the breath in a pair of lungs, or the beating of a heart could never match. The tide was turning long before life existed, and it will keep turning long after we’re gone.”
― Keith Catalano Wilson, A Road out of Naknek: Alaskan Salmon Fishing, Long-Distance Running, and Life According to the Tide

“The surface of the ocean moves like muscle, but
underneath it is the pulse of the ebb and flood, like my heart urging
the movement of blood and limbs over a distance through space.
When I run a long enough distance, it is all-the-more-clearer that
I’m just a vessel of consciousness constructed of cells and bacteria.”
― Keith Catalano Wilson, A Road out of Naknek: Alaskan Salmon Fishing, Long-Distance Running, and Life According to the Tide